We’re pleased to be able to finally announce that the winner of the 2007 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, Shakespeare section, is:
‘Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Post-Reformation Desire’
by Patricia Marchesi (University of Colorado, Boulder)
The final results are listed below (also available as a PDF). Winners and runners-up will be published in Literature Compass over the next few weeks, with winners also receiving $200 / £100 of free Blackwell books.
In addition, the Renaissance prize is sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Studies – the winner also receives a cheque for $200/£100 and will have their essay published in the Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies.
Winners
Troubled Conversions: the Difference Gender Makes in The Sultan of Babylon
Emily Houlik-Ritchey, Indiana University (Medieval Prize)
English Renaissance Drama: The Imprints of Performance
Gavin Paul, University of British Columbia (Renaissance Prize)
Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Post-Reformation Desire
Patricia Marchesi, University of Colorado, Boulder (Shakespeare Prize)
“This Diabolical Generation” – the Ranters and the Devil
Evan Labuzetta, University of Cambridge (Seventeenth Century Prize)
`No vain speculation’: Samuel Johnson’s Rambler and eighteenth century attitudes to orality
Laura Davies, University of Cambridge (Eighteenth Century Prize)
Re-envisioning the Sublime: L.E.L.’s Valley of Linmouth
Maria Paola Svampa, University of Macerata (Romanticism Prize)
Cultural Wounds and Physical Scarring in Once Were Warriors
Rachel Bryden, University of Auckland (Twentieth Century & Contemporary Prize)
“Grammar. In a breath:” Breathing in Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons
Flore Chevaillier, Florida State University (American Prize)
The results of the Shakespeare Prize will be confirmed in February 2008.
No Victorian Prize was awarded this year.
Runners-up
War, Empire, Slavery: Radicalism in the work of Robert Tannahill
Jim Ferguson, University of Glasgow (Romanticism)
The Question of Socialist Writing and Sylvia Townsend Warner in the Thirties
Kristin Ewins, University of Oxford (Twentieth Century & Contemporary)
Many thanks for all your submissions and congratulations to all the winners and runners-up!
